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From the videos he seems to get a few goals from picking up rebounds from other player's shots. Also looks decent enough in the air. So need to start pinging in a lot more shots to see if he can capitalise + get crossing. Overall he reminds me of Pelle, if he's anywhere nearly as good then he'd be more than useful. We'll see.

Have to say a point against Spurs is nothing to be sniffed at, I thought we'd get thrashed so well done the players and egg on my face. Got to keep it going now, still a steep hill to climb. Manager isn't going anywhere so got to hope we can pull out of this.

Fantastic point considering I genuinely feared what Spurs would do to us. Got a bit lucky with a subdued Spurs performance but take nothing away from the players, really good effort. Now please sack the manager.

The big draw for me is that Silva appears to be an impact manager which is exactly what we need right now. Loyalty is a bit iffy but so what, get him on a 'till the end of the season' deal and see how it goes. He's not the greatest but that's not important right now - the only question is can he keep us up and I think he can. One thing's for sure, I'm pretty sure our strike force would finally start firing and Gabbi would take a much bigger part in things. Also I think he'd be able to get Tadic and Redmond fired up - should be enough to keep us up. That said I'm not atall convinced the board aren't preparing to go kamikaze and stick with the current guy. Ego, hubris and a rudderless ship may save MP's job at least till the end of the season. Long term I'd love Ron Koeman or Martin O'Neill but that may be wishful thinking.

Definitely new manager but the current guy isn't going anywhere. Not saying the players have covered themselves in glory but until you get someone in charge who knows what they are doing it's very hard to judge them. Redmond for example gets a lot of stick but who knows - maybe with a more attack oriented manager he could be a very decent player? He certainly has the attributes. If I'm right and MP stays till the bitter end then relegation becomes a real coin toss this season.

Don't blame him atall, Gabbi needs a strike partner but the manager has no intention of playing 2 up front. If\when he goes it will have been a huge waste of talent. The solution is to get a manager that believes in him and believes in 2 up front.

Spurs are going to surgically open us up and disembowel us. I truly fear this could be the biggest beating we are going to take this season. Really hope I'm wrong.

First half we were great, just shows we do have the players to get out of this mess when they go for it. However after half time talks Watford came out like lions and we came out like mice. I can only presume it was another genius talk from our defeatist negative cowardly manager. Inevitably the team goes into its shell and we drop 2 points. If we go down this season it will be the biggest act of self harm this club will have committed in my time of following, mind numbing stuff really. Please just get rid of him - it's painful to watch.

This one's going to stink out Vicarage road so bad they're going to have to call in the fumigators. 1-1 and Captain Clueless stays at the helm. #WeLimpOn

Yes, the Camara goal was the loudest I've heard. SMS was like a pressure cooker as the game ebbed and flowed - thought the roof was going to blow off that afternoon.

Yes he was the best of Harry's desperate deals in that 'swing Lowe from the Itchen bridge' train wreck of a season. The rest of them were chuffing sh*te though, Davenport? Bernard? Jamie 'pay day' Redknapp? It really was do or die kamikazi stuff. That's what happens when you're down the bottom and looking desperate though.

Threads like this give me horrible flashbacks to 04-05 when we were like a drowning man flailing around desperately using anyone who vaguely expressed an interest in getting a big pay cheque, Camara and Redknapp spring to mind but I'm sure there were others.

Just like Black was, or VVD? Manager picks the team, manager sets the tone. The manager didn't pick Austin for an eternity and wondered why we weren't scoring goals. The manager is still utterly fixated on 1 up front from the start even though it's been a complete flop, not even a glimmer of hope that he might try something different. His influence permeates throughout and it's a defensive, cowering one. Take a 1-0 lead and defend, invite pressure and invariably concede. Players heads have dropped, Gabbi looks a shadow of his former self and the lack of spearhead has screwed up the whole 11. Les Reed is to blame as much as he hired this guy and still appears to refuse that he isn't up to it, but the bottom line is MP has taken an adequate squad and wrecked it. Maybe he's a nice guy - unfortunately being a nice guy doesn't necessarily make you a good manager.

Agreed - I think the majority of fans would like to see him back here, see what he can do. Looks like the Brum fans are starting to warm to him now their manager is playing him as a CF. Why are we thinking of spending good money on an iffy looking striker when we already have one that looks promising and plays in the same role? Not saying we shouldn't get a CF in - we absolutely should - but get a proven one that we know can do the business and if we aren't prepared to do this then at least recall what we actually have got.

Player agrees to go on a deal, buying club backs out because they think they are paying too much - as is their right. Player's contract runs down, buying cub comes back a few months later and agrees a cheaper deal. Not sure what he's getting worked up about.

Ralph: What is it? Les: I don't know but it cost me £75M.

As someone who still loves the cups really chuffed to have gotten through that, thought we'd lose TBH but we didn't look too bad. Thought Long took his 'goal' pretty well too even if it didn't count. MP as per usual only played 1 up front, why doesn't he at least try 2 up front from the start in a game or two and see how it goes? He's got such a fixed mindset, no plan B whatsoever. Anyway it sounds like the club are going to stick with him so what will be will be, I'd prefer him gone but we're stuck with him so let's hope we can get at least get a little cup run and survive in the league (which is now a coin toss for me).

Looks like a real gamble, especially as our prem status is on the line. Would like to see a proven act but that's going to cost a lot of money. Agree with getting Gallagher back. How long is Charlie out?

'He's not an excuse guy and we like the human being he is, the coach he is, and the potential for our squad moving forward with him in the lead' He might be a 'nice guy' but he's a lousy manager. Has Krueger been watching anything? Heads firmly in the sand and relegation looking like a scary possibility now.

To be honest the only thing about tonight was that we managed to score. Man Utd was also down to them having a poor day, not anything our manager did. The difference tonight was that Palace have a manager that knows what he's doing and we don't but then you could say the same thing about umpteen other games this season. We have the worst manager in the prem and quite why the board can't see this is utterly baffling. We can still get out of this self inflicted nightmare but only if the club: A) Gets rid of MP right now and replaces him with a manager that believes in attacking football (I'm starting to forget what it's like to see 2 up front). B) We get a proven goal scorer. Be prepared to spend big on a good spearhead, forget CH's, attacking mids etc - we MUST get a goalscorer or we're done. If we have any cash left over then strengthen elsewhere but goals should be the boards overwhelming priority. If we do go down it will have to go down as the biggest case of self inflicted damage in the club's history. We should be nowhere the relegation zone, it's quite incredible how badly managed the team has been.

Palace haven't lost in any of the last 5 matches whereas we haven't won. I personally think that they, like us, are better than their position suggests. However the signs are that they have a manager that is getting their act together. Palace have goals in them whereas we don't. Goalless draw or loss I'm afraid.

In my time of watching Saints the outstanding CHs have been Wright, Deano, Killer, Toby and Virgil. I'd put Toby as the best and Killer/Virgil 2nd. Commanding in the air, great attacking distribution and a threat up front. Toby was a better out and out defender though and no coincidence that we had a mean defence when he was here.

Not for me, he's too injury prone and doesn't score enough. I want SFC to go big on a proven goal scorer, Giroud would be fantastic but can't see it. Not easy to get a good target man but the club must secure one if they want to stay in the prem. Trouble is if MP stays he will probably destroy any decent player.

I've been around long enough not to get too worked up about players coming and going and to get £75M for Virgil is a superb piece of business. Of course we now need to spend wisely, not on experiments but proven players. We need to go big on a goal scorer now that Charlie is out otherwise where are the goals coming from? However top priority MUST be a decent manager if we can find one. I still think that with a good motivator in charge and Gabi plus a real spearhead up front that this squad could do pretty well in this league. Don't feel any particular animosity to Virgil, football is a business and we've done well by him. Ironically it could be his lack of loyalty that saves our conversation prem status.

The best 'signing' would be to replace the manager is with someone competent. That would be worth a few players. After that I'd spend big on a goal scorer. Current squad plus decent manager plus regular goal scorer would see a massive improvement in all areas but MP has to go.